The Iran Nuclear Threat: Phantom Menace By Ben Schreiner

1 February, 2013 — Global Research

They say you can’t kill that which has never lived.  It’s useful advice when analyzing the persistence of the so-called “Iranian nuclear threat.”

According to a report in McClatchy, “Israeli intelligence officials now estimate that Iran won’t be able to build a nuclear weapon before 2015 or 2016.”

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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual By John Pilger

21 July 2011 — John Pilger

In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A confused Boot is brought to his lordship’s presence by Mr. Salter, The Beast’s foreign editor.

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Yemen Newslinks 6 June 2011: Factbox: Saleh family entrenched in Yemen security, business

6 June 2011 — williambowles.info

3 Killed as Violence Returns to Yemen’s Capital
Voice of America
Photo: AP Armed tribesmen, loyal to Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, stand guard in a street corner around al-Ahmar’s house, during clashes with Yemeni security forces in Sanaa, June 6, 2011. Opposition tribesmen in Yemen …
www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/in-transition/3-Killed-as-Violence-Returns-to-Yemens-Capital—123214708.html

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